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It's mid-week. You finished class and three job interviews. You have an hour to make and eat dinner before a 7:30 meeting back on campus. Your options are teh classic pasta with red sauce or pizza. You'd like a glass of wine too. What do you pour? JOSH SOLOMON has got some advice.
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"Consider a trilogy that's become more of a character franchise," LYNN LEE writes, "A franchise built off a genuinely original blockbuster that had audiences riveted in their seats, with a character that has since become ensconced in pop culture lore. . . . Sound familiar?
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As the S.E.C. files criminal and civil actions against Andrew Fastow, some of Wall Street's worst nightmares filed some of their most deeply-impacting lawsuits in recent months. ADAM WHITE writes that Wall Street feeding frenzy may be going too far.
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What would COLLEN CHEN have done if she'd lived in a Soviet-bloc country during the Cold War? While she hopes she would have been a dissident, she writes that she might have even joined the Young Communists or worse been a Young Communist.
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"Spinning Into Butter," now playing at the Theatre Cooperative, dredged up really unpleasant memories for me, and I had to call the police after the show. Yet I highly recommend it. Sound crazy? Well, I'll try to explain, but you should really just come see it," AMANDA GOAD writes.
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Professor Hanson was crying, and the last day or Torts was still months away. "My Corporations class has ruined Cardozo! I love Cardozo," he blubbered. Fenno offered him one of the Diversity Cookies he'd picked up in the Lehmann Lounge.
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In this week's Vino & Veritas, MICHAEL CHAISANGUANTHUM learns a valuable lesson. . . take notes or you might not remember the wine the morning after. Meanwhile, DUNCAN CROSBY extolls the virtues of a wine club.
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That would be cheesy. But this is still one of the best concert calenders you'll see for a while.
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Like the Red Sox choking at the end of a season, the early October reappearance of HLS students in suits in one of those regular events that nonetheless always merits some comment.
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This week OPIA Director Shabecoff, Professor Bagenstos, and sixteen students write in to say the RECORD got it wrong when we criticized the school for failing to hire a second full time advisor. Dr. Statlender from the Office of Student Life Counseling, however, was at least grateful for our recent feature on being a parent at Harvard. Meanwhile, Professor Dershowitz writes in to deny that he favors torture and 2L Jith meganathan blasts Adam White's editorial last week calling for more of an emphasis on corporate law at HLS.
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In a world where national and international leaders do everything they can to load the dice against the working poor, CLIFFORD GINN writes that janitors in Boston's Local 254 are trying to make a difference.
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Five decades after women were first admitted to the Law School, JONATHAN SKRMETTI muses on the difficulties of being a woman at HLS. His conclusion? Things aren't always so easy.